§ Baroness Blatchasked Her Majesty's Government:
How much local highway authority expenditure they intend to accept for transport supplementary grant in 1990–91; what supplementary credit approvals and what level of annual capital guidelines they will be issuing for local roads expenditure.
§ Viscount UllswaterMy right honourable friend the Secretary of State has decided to accept £466 million of local authority highway expenditure for transport supplementary grant in 1990–91. Grant will be paid on this expenditure at a flat rate of 50 per cent. The total of £233 million TSG is nearly 15 per cent. higher than for 1989–90.
My right honourable friend has also decided to issue supplementary credit approvals of £50 million and total annual capital guidelines of £352 million, bringing coverage for local roads and parking for 1990-91 to £635 million. The capital allocation for 1989-90 is £513 million.
Seventy new major (over £1 million) schemes will be supported through TSG for the first time. Among these are the Birmingham Heartlands Spine Road; a major new link road from the M.57 to the A.562 in Merseyside; the Littlehampton Bypass; further stages of both the Avon Ring Road and the Leeds Inner Ring Road; as well as the Thornaby Bypass and the Beddington-Mitcham Relief Road; other important improvements in both urban and rural areas. Twenty-two of these schemes will directly assist inner cities.
Some 270 other major schemes will continue to receive TSG support, including 90 inner city areas. Most of these are alrady under construction or are due to start in the current financial year.
Local authorities have reported completion of 59 TSG-supported schemes costing £245 million in 1988–89 and a start of works on 65 such schemes costing £401 million. During 1989–90, they plan to complete a further 62 schemes costing £290 million and start 76 costing £538 million.
In deciding the distribution of transport supplementary grant for 1990–91, my right honourable friend has considered carefully the transport policies and programme document submitted by each local highway authority, and has looked at the extent to which authorities' programmes relate to roads of more than local importance. Many local authority roads —such as major urban roads and roads on the primary route network—carry significant amounts of through traffic, and thus complement the trunk road network. Improvements to such roads are important locally because they save lives, reduce congestion and relieve communities from the effects of through traffic. They are also of national benefit by aiding the efficient flow of goods, people and services. TSG reflects the national taxpayer's interest in helping local authorities to improve these roads.
110WAMy right honourable friend has also given special priority this year to schemes which will assist in the regeneration of our inner cities. New and improved roads are often crucial in unlocking inner city potential, either by removing through traffic from inner city streets thereby relieving congestion, increasing safety and improving the environment, or by providing high quality access to the motorway network for inner city industry and commerce.
Many smaller schemes on heavily trafficked roads produce very significant accident savings and other benefits. My right honourable friend has therefore also taken into account £38 million of expenditure on minor (under £1 million) schemes for grant in 1990–91.
Annual capital guidelines, together with supplementary credit approvals will provide local highway authorities with the necessary resources to meet the balance of their TSG accepted expenditure and to undertake a further wide range of improvements and expenditure to which TSG support does not extend.
The amount of expenditure accepted for TSG, the amount of grant, the annual capital guideline, and the supplementary credit approvals which the Government intend to issue for highway expenditure for each local highway authority are set out in the table below. Councils are being informed individually today of their own figures.
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LOCAL AUTHORITY CAPITAL EXPENDITURE ON ROADS 1990/91 Metropolitan Districts Authority Net Expenditure Accepted for TSG £m Transport Supplementary Gram £m Supplementary Credit Approvals £m Annual Capital Guideline £m Bolton 2.684 1.342 0.000 1.945 Bury 1.698 0.849 0.000 1.315 Manchester 9.632 4.816 0.187 8.198 Oldham 1.228 0.614 0.000 2.443 Rochdale 0.378 0.189 0.000 1.036 Salford 5.096 2.548 0.000 3.882 Stockport 0.916 0.458 0.000 0.959 Tameside 0.806 0.403 0.000 1.438 Trafford 0.778 0.389 0.000 1.566 Wigan 1.744 0.872 0.000 2.065 Knowsley 1.792 0.896 0.000 1.397 Liverpool 1.500 0.750 0.000 2.506 St. Helens 5.882 2.941 0.340 3.007 Sefton 0.738 0.369 0.282 0.689 Wirral 0.900 0.450 0.220 1.299 Barnsley 3.148 1.574 0.132 2.142 Doncaster 1.414 0.707 0.000 1.897 Rotherham 2.486 1.243 0.000 1.908 Sheffield 11.092 5.546 0.270 6.191 Gateshead 1.944 0.972 0.000 1.991 Newcastle upon Tyne 0.124 0.062 0.000 2.920 North Tyneside 0.306 0.153 0.000 0.542 South Tyneside 1.400 0.700 0.000 1.242 Sunderland 1.694 0.847 0.000 3.033 Birmingham 15.790 7.895 0.744 9.811 Coventry 2.948 1.474 0.825 1.537 Dudley 1.150 0.575 0.000 2.272 Sandwell 1.504 0.752 0.000 2.672 Solihull 0.856 0.428 0.000 1.325 Walsall 5.502 2.751 2.693 0.490 Wolverhampton 5.684 2.842 2.111 1.748 Bradford 4.934 2.467 0.127 4.115 Calderdale 0.192 0.096 0.000 1.428 Kirklees 0.120 0.060 0.000 0.735 Leeds 5.264 2.632 0.088 3.876 Wakefield 0.314 0.157 0.000 2.457 112WA
LOCAL AUTHORITY CAPITAL EXPENDITURE ON ROADS 1990/91 Shire Counties Authority Net Expenditure Accepted for TSG £m Transport Supplementary Grant £m Supplementary credit Approvals £m Annual Capital Guideline £m Avon 13.428 6.714 0.491 7.230 Bedfordshire 5.182 2.591 0.132 3.659 Berkshire 3.764 1.882 0.239 5.723 Buckinghamshire 2.306 1.153 0.000 2.087 Cambridgeshire 3.864 1.932 0.000 4.316 Cheshire 8.308 4.154 0.000 6.174 Cleveland 10.884 5.442 0.000 6.351 Cornwall 5.594 2.797 0.000 4.670 Cumbria 4.652 2.326 0.000 3.326 Derbyshire 1.164 0.582 0.000 4.353 Devon 6.788 3.394 0.407 7.622 Dorset 5.732 2.866 0.000 4.544 Durham 4.820 2.410 0.000 2.932 East Sussex 6.142 3.071 0.660 5.082 Essex 13.372 6.686 0.373 11.533 Gloucestershire 3.866 1.933 0.000 3.215 Hampshire 15.278 7.639 5.910 4.274 Hereford and Worcester 2.676 1.338 0.000 2.585 Hertfordshire 6.050 3.025 0.000 4.700 Humberside 10.624 5.312 0.000 7.677 Isle of Wight 0.828 0.414 0.000 1.202 Kent 2.5100 12.550 9.853 8.869 Lancashire 25.746 12.873 0.000 16.496 Leicestershire 6.094 3.047 0.081 4.477 Lincolnshire 3.148 1.574 0.000 2.481 Norfolk 11.346 5.673 2.889 4.428 Northamptonshire 5.698 2.849 0.000 5.115 Northumberland 2.962 1.481 0.000 2.265 North Yorkshire 6.888 3.444 0.000 4.909 Nottinghamshire 3.828 1.914 0.000 3.986 Oxfordshire 4.924 2.462 0.000 5.352 Shropshire 3.132 1.566 0.000 3.540 Somerset 6.312 3.156 0.000 4.486 Staffordshire 5.826 2.913 0.000 4.390 Suffolk 6.374 3.187 0.000 5.782 Surrey 12.660 6.330 2.746 6.359 Warwickshire 0.984 0.492 0.328 2.112 West Sussex 9.064 4.532 0.000 6.045 Wiltshire 5.970 2.985 0.000 4.714
LOCAL AUTHORITY CAPITAL EXPENDITURE ON ROADS 1990/91 London Boroughs Authority Net Expenditure Accepted for TSG £m Transport Supplementary Grant£m Supplementary Credit Approvals £m Annual Capital Guideline £m City of London 0.202 0.101 0.000 0.461 Barking and Dagenham 3.496 1.748 0.000 3.622 Barnet 0.322 0.161 0.000 0.571 Bexley 4.268 2.134 0.000 2.869 Brent 0.014 0.007 0.000 0.736 Bromley 7.668 3.834 0.000 4.328 Camden 0.378 0.189 0.000 1.095 Croydon 1.776 0.888 0.000 1.890 Ealing 4.858 2.429 1.710 3.592 Enfield 9.762 4.881 6.480 0.429 Greenwich 0.038 0.019 0.000 1.149 Hackney 0.372 0.186 0.000 0.791 Hammersmith and Fulham 0.296 0.148 0.000 1.303 Haringey 5.442 2.721 2.780 0.661 Harrow 6.428 3.214 0.000 5.668 Havering 0.430 0.215 0.000 0.568 Hillingdon 5.484 2.742 4.917 2.297 Hounslow 0.558 0.279 0.279 0.540 Islington 0.336 0.168 0.000 0.549 Kensington and Chelsea 0.570 0.285 0.000 0.694 Kingston upon Thames 1.132 0.566 0.000 1.881 Lambeth 0.308 0.154 0.000 0.280 Lewisham 3.974 1.987 0.000 3.081 Merton 14.200 7.100 1.150 7.282 Newham 3.582 1.791 0.000 2.869 Redbridge 0.268 0.134 0.000 0.598 Richmond upon Thames 0.344 0.172 0.000 0.633 Southwark 0.498 0.249 0.000 1.701 Sutton 1.180 0.590 0.000 3.168 Tower Hamlets 0.182 0.091 0.000 1.007 Waltham Forest 0.112 0.056 0.000 0.726 Wandsworth 2.022 1.011 0.000 3.429 Westminster 0.734 0.367 0.000 4.589